The report examines income and low income in census metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000. It examines the situation … and lone-parent family members. Median pre-tax income rose in virtually all Canadian census metropolitan areas (CMAs …) over the 1980 to 2000 period. Incomes increased at both the top and bottom of the income distribution, but tended to rise …

earnings improved between the 1980s and the 1990s. Of all full-time employees, 5% were low-paid and lived in low income … mothers and persons living alone accounted for fully 71% of all full-time workers in low-paid jobs and in low-income, but only … 37% of all full-time workers. While members of these five groups account for the majority of low-paid workers in low-income …

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in … the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration … by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the 1980s but rose in the 1990s. Declining earnings put upward …

residing in low-income neighbourhoods (residential 'spells'). Although the length of new spells is generally substantial (at … least compared with low-income spells), there is quite a lot of variation in this regard. Low-income neighbourhood spells … exhibit negative duration dependence, implying that the longer people live in low-income neighbourhoods, the less likely they …